World Cup Speed Skating

Bobs and Mads had swimming lessons today. Bobs is in his own unparented class and he did extremely well for his first day in term of listening and not being afraid. Mads is in a class with KC, Elliott, Elliott's cousin Olivia, and another friend named Liam. It's fun knowing everyone in the class.

After classes, we went to the Oval and were treated to tickets to prime seating at the World Cup. We lasted for an hour and 15 mins.

Bobs was falling asleep on my lap, and Mads tried to sleep on some jackets on the cement stands.

They got fun musical noisemakers for the events. Bobs wished he had a whistle though. I am sure it was a good thing he didn't get one.

Science Center

On sunday night, we had Mormor and Morfar over for supper and we played memory as a family afterwards. It worked out not too bad.

Morfar read them the Toy Story 3 book. He was good at making up the story as he went along.

I had friday off from work, and my friend Mike from Edmonton has always wanted to meet Mads and Bobs, so we went to the science center, and KK, JJ and KC joined us.

It's brand new and quite impressive. KK tried to use the treadmill, and it was extremely difficult - which means it really is difficult.

Mads wasn't so sure about the place at first. Even the watertable was a bit daunting.

Bobs and Mads liked the musical themed areas the best.

It was a perfect place to go in the winter. I was pondering getting a seasons pass by I think they are too young for it yet.

Afterward, we had lunch and the boys were spoiled with gifts from Mike, who is a blog reader, so he knew exactly what they would like. Mads got a baseball and a bunch of replacement balls to use in a ball pit, and Bobs got a stuffed character from the movie Monsters Inc, and spiderman, plus the movie Spiderman. They also got a baseball book to share. Thanks Mike!

Real

I found out that YouKnow is real. I am such a curious cat, that I e-mailed the director of the daycare who is quite friendly and knowledgeable.

Hi XXX

Odd question. Bobs has been talking about a kid in his class ( and other kids ), and he said his name is Uno. (sounds like “Youknow”).Apparently he has purple black hair. I am trying to figure out for curiosity sake, whether this kid is real or imaginary? Is there a kid in preschool yellow with a name like that? It’s a boy.

Thanks!

Bobs' Mom

From: XXX

Sent: January-24-12 8:50 AM
To: XX@XXX.XX

Subject: Odd question

Good Morning Bobs' Mom,

There is a boy in that room named Yoonho...he is Korean and does have black hair J  No, Bobs does not have an imaginary friend.  Yoonho comes to daycare on Monday, Thursday and Friday.  That is so funny!  Hopefully Bobs is talking about nice things Yoonho has done and not the opposite!!

Regards,

 XX XX

Real or Imaginary?

Bobs has been telling us once in awhile about his friend at daycare "YouKnow". I know some of the kids there, but there are always new kids. I like to hear about his day and who is has been playing with. I wasn't sure if YouKnow was an imaginary friend, since Bobs has made up two people before named Milkum and Matito. He never really went into much detail about these two and it was before he was at daycare.

I asked Bobs what YouKnow's hair colour was. He said it was purple and black. hmmmm.

I asked Bobs if YouKnow has any parents. He said he didn't know. I asked what his favourite colour was. He said purple. (same as Bobs). I asked he if was a stuffed animal or if he was a real person. Bobs said "Mom, I already told you! He is a real person!".

Daddy wasn't convinced that YouKnow is real. I was convinced he was.

What do you think?

We will miss you Great Grandma

Today we lost one of our most important blog readers and one of the reasons for the inspiration behind this blog. Great Grandma Joyce. She was a warm, and intelligent woman and I enjoyed that she had opinions. She loved desserts and being with family. She was at our wedding, and Bobs was able to meet her two and a half years ago.

Rest in Peace Great Grandma. We are thinking about Great Grandpa Doug and the rest of the family who are missing her.

Garbage Guys

Helping Daddy empty the garbage cans on garbage day is the boys one major chore they have to help with.

Mads likes to do it more than Bobs does. Interestingly, Bobs wants to be a garbage collector when he is older. He loves the garbage trucks.

Until saturday morning swimming commences, Mads and Mommy are staying home while Daddy and Bobs are at skating. Mads enjoys having free reign of the toys.

Here is a video of Mads asking for me to draw more balls, and saying please.

Daycare/Pre School

Bobs likes to practice his alphabets at daycare. The director of the daycare says he concentrates so hard, that he doesn't even notice what is going on around him.

Mads got moved into a bigger kids class. He is now one of the youngest in his class, and many of the kids are talking, which is great. I find he is a bit behind where Bobs was at this age. This could be because Bobs will often speak for him and tell us what he thinks Mads needs and is saying. Mads is in the green shirt here having lunch with his little toddler friends. On fridays, Mormor, or one of us will have the boys at home. They are in daycare 4 days a week and it is working out well so far.